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# UNHCR

This year
2024
UN refugee agency calls on Irish Government to end asylum seeker homelessness and use of tents
14 Feb
18.8k
Last year
2023
UN refugee agency rejects UK Home Secretary's comments about migration
27 Sep 2023
8.4k
Greek rescuers scour the sea for survivors of 'horrific' migrant boat sinking
15 Jun 2023
6.3k
UN refugee agency says it is 'completely unpalatable' that asylum seekers are homeless in Ireland
28 Jan 2023
26.6k
All time
UN agency probes origin of Rohingya who landed in Indonesia after ‘weeks at sea’
27 Dec 2022
8.8k
0
Opinion: Ukrainian refugees are vulnerable to trafficking and abuse - we must protect them
Mary Van Lieshout
11 May 2022
10.1k
8
Explainer: How does family reunification work in Ireland? And what are the problems with it?
19 Sep 2021
13.2k
1
State plans to end Direct Provision by 2024 and replace system with not-for-profit accommodation
Updated 26 Feb 2021
53.4k
117
Record 80 million people now displaced in 'bleak milestone', UN says
9 Dec 2020
8.2k
11
Opinion: 'We will soon see asylum seekers living in sports halls and tents if we don't do something'
Enda O'Neill
20 Nov 2019
18.9k
117
UN says Ireland needs to take 'immediate action' to cut asylum waiting times
25 Apr 2018
14.2k
24
There are 3.5 million refugee children not in school because of war and poverty
12 Sep 2017
4.8k
36
'Champion for refugees' rights’: Tributes paid to Irish UNHCR official who died in Kenyan hospital
15 Aug 2017
15.5k
7
Ireland gives €5.5 million in aid to crises in Chad and Central African Republic
3 Jul 2017
7.9k
36
Rule change should lead to less time in Direct Provision centres for asylum seekers
3 Jan 2017
12.1k
26
Broadcasting watchdog upholds two more complaints against Ray D'Arcy over abortion discussions
21 Dec 2016
20.6k
66
UN accuses Buddhist Myanmar of 'ethnically cleansing' its Muslim Rohingya minority
25 Nov 2016
12.2k
14
Almost 250 migrants, who were forced to sail at gunpoint, feared drowned in Mediterranean
3 Nov 2016
19.9k
81
UN refugee agency fears 500 migrants drowned in Mediterranean
20 Apr 2016
11.6k
110
Over 60 million people are set to be displaced worldwide this year
18 Dec 2015
6.4k
23
Google is doing its bit to help ease the migrant crisis today
16 Sep 2015
13.0k
78
The obligatory photo of Ban Ki-Moon pulling a pint of Guinness
26 May 2015
13.5k
36
These are the countries hosting the world's refugees
7 Jan 2015
11.9k
36
'I’m scared I'll be arrested and held somewhere - that’s why I almost never leave my house'
21 Oct 2014
12.0k
15
Asylum applications rose by 26% in the first six months of this year
26 Sep 2014
7.6k
198
260 people died in the Mediterranean in the past two weeks
27 Jul 2014
18.9k
12
Over 200 refugees will resettle in Ireland in 2015 and 2016
27 Jun 2014
8.3k
130
Government announces further €1 million in aid for Syria refugees
3 Sep 2013
3.6k
76
Number of Syrian refugees passes 2 million mark
3 Sep 2013
2.9k
16
One person became a refugee every four seconds last year
19 Jun 2013
3.1k
49
Greek court rules that illegal immigrants were right to escape from police lockup
14 Jan 2013
8.8k
17
Angelina Jolie calls for international help for Syrian refugees
11 Sep 2012
6.0k
40
Somali militants ban 16 aid groups and UN agencies
29 Nov 2011
1.2k
11
Column: When refugees flee for their lives, shouldn't we show interest?
Sophie Magennis
10 Oct 2011
55
6
Irish urged to show support for refugees rebuilding lives
10 Oct 2011
297
Video: Angelina Jolie reassessing role with UN agency
4 Oct 2011
857
2
29,000 children 'killed by Somalia famine'
5 Aug 2011
986
1
US prepared to offer 'any kind of assistance' to Libyan rebels
27 Feb 2011
476
1